Carl Deuker -- Books, Movies, TV

Famous for the swimming scene,which is great, but there's nothing else here. Boring

Opioid crisis. Bosch goes undercover and almost gets killed. Old case is dredged up.  Bosch is accused (wrongly) of falsifying the conviction.  He hires an old nemesis to be his lawyer.  They win, the bad guy goes back to jail, Bosch is vindicated.  Maddy lurks around worrying about Dad--sort of a combination daughter/wife/mom/sister. Lots of furrowed brows for her. Not bad.

England in India during WWII.  Susan and Sarah are sisters.  Sarah unconventional, perhaps headed toward marriage with Indian, which would be shocking.  Susan marries, her husband dies in battle, she tries to burn her baby. Lurking Ronald Merrick.  Sadist, hates the Indians, suppressed gay.  He tortures one Indian who had the audacity to have an affair with English woman, Daphne. Daphne dies in childbirth (the Indian's child).  Ronald loved Daphne, now seems to love Sarah.  She seems much too smart for him.  We'll see. entertaining but not great . . . not close.

Three men (two brothers and a friend) discover 4.4 million in a crashed plane in wintry Dakotas, MInnesota????  One of the brothers is the smart one, a college grad. He at first wants to turn over the $ to the police.  His brother and friend talk him out of that.  DRUG MONEY, they say. No one will claim it. It's not stealing. "Smart" brother agrees.  They'll keep the money hidden till spring, then divide it up and move away.  Simple But. Smart brother decides to return some of the money to the plane because there should be some there.  As he's doing so, a farmer comes along. Billy Bob Thornton, dumb brother, panics and smashes in the farmer's head.  Then smart brother finishes him off and dumps his body in creek. Next, friend wants his share early.  Smart brother's wife wants to trick friend into confessing to the murder of the farmer on secret tape by a ruse.  Tell me how you'd have done it?  Once his confession is on tape, they c...

Not bad.  Apollo Creed's son takes on the son of the Russian who killed his father.  Rocky wants no part of it, so Creed loses.  Then Rocky comes on board and Creed wins.  Interesting that this Creed and this Drago are "sensitive" types who are semi-whiny/weepy.  Times have changed.  Creed 3 coming, I'm guessing.  Main actor was from Fruitvale Station and is quite good.

Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy.  Lush, NY lives in the late 50's.  Very enjoyable . . . stars don't exactly have great charisma together but they're okay.  Plot is clever. sociology:  DD is mauled in car by college boy who has offered to give her a ride home.  She fights him off but acts as if it is just part of the life of a female.  Times have changed.

Tom Cruise couldn't be more unlike Jack Reacher. Debonair, groomed, polished, small--the exact opposite.  Plot:  Man is accused of randomly killing people; a mass shooting. He's an ex-military colleague of Reacher. Reacher knows he's not a great shot.  The man has been framed. The killings aren't random. One person--a business rival of the bad guy Werner Herzog--is the only target. Other dead are just to throw the police off. Reacher works with lawyer Rosmund Pike to get to the truth, then kills all the bad guys and saves her. Robert Duvall (a parody of himself with his heh-heh laugh) is Reacher's helper.  In the end, Reacher walks away--maybe headed to the hairstylist Terrible